THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF SEVERAL WITCHES LATELY EXECUTED IN NEW ENGLAND. (BY COTTON MATHER) TO WHICH IS ADDED A FARTHER ACCOUNT OF THE TRYALS OF THESE NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES BY INCREASE MATHER.
Book Details + Condition: John Russell Smith (London). First Edition thus, 1862. Hardcover measuring 7" x 5". 291 pages. Includes a frontis portrait of Mather, as well as a facsimile of the original title pages. This is the first lengthy account of the trials of the accused Salem witches, written by the well noted New England Puritan of his age, Cotton Mather, with latter commentary by his son, Increase Mather. This is the first publication of these classic accounts since the 17th-century first edition in 1693.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. Firm binding; lightly rubbed corners and spine ends; toned pages; Parker's bookplate to inside front board, as well as his embossed stamp to half-title page; foxing to first and last few pages; interior is clean and free of markings.
